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Article. 02영어 기사 읽기 2020. 6. 7. 13:07
Black Lives Matter: Why Americans Are Protesting
There have been hundreds of protests across America — and dozens more around the world — since George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
Many people were outraged by a video showing a white police officer pressing his knee on Floyd's neck, doing so for almost nine minutes while Floyd said he couldn't breathe. Protests began in Minneapolis the next day, and spread to more cities even after the officer was charged with murder. Three other officers have now also been charged with aiding and abetting murder.
aid and abet - To be accomplice to someone in an illegal act.
American civil rights activists have said that the protests are not just a response to Floyd’s death, but a reaction to multiple recent events highlighting ongoing racism in America. These include a video of an unarmed 25-year-old man being shot and killed after being chased by two white men, who were not charged until the video was released; and a 26-year-old health care worker killed by police in her own apartment.
ongoing - An ongoing situation has been happening for quite a long time and seems likely to continue
for some time in the future
Many have also been outraged by lack of accountability for deaths of black Americans. After a Florida man was found not guilty of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, the Black Lives Matter movement was created in 2013 out of a sense that black lives are not valued as much as those of other Americans.
A 2015 study in Harvard Public Health Review found that, out of almost 10,000 young men killed by US police between 1960 and 2010, more than 42% were black, despite black people making up less than 13% of the population during that time.
African-Americans have struggled against racial inequality for centuries. Slavery only ended in 1865, and was followed by laws that separated black and white Americans for almost 70 years, limiting where black people could go to school, eat, own property, and much more.
These laws changed in the 1960s, after the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others — while practices denying loans to black people only began to end in the 1970s, with the effects still felt today.
Q1. Prior to reading this article, what had you heard about the ongoing protests in the US?
A Yeap, I've heard a lot. Some in my country are trying to do movement in the middle of Seoul. It has been a bigger problem than I thought it was. So, social minority group like Asian, Black in the US have been suffering from major group. It's sooooo un fair!
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